Dumbest Tony Awards Decisions - Page 2

[JarqueLemos]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 2:56pm

Avenue Q over Wicked... LOL

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 2:58pm

I gotta second that for Tonya for Caroline, or Change. Pretty much Caroline, or Change should have won all the awards it was nominated for.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 3:15pm

^How could I have forgotten that one?

Honestly, since I posted about Macbeth I've been sitting in the library stewing. Alan Cumming should have WON.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 3:18pm

"Avenue Q over Wicked... LOL"

Because WICKED deserved it over AVENUE Q? Ergghh...I think not, friend. WICKED is a serviceable musical with immense commercial appeal. AVENUE Q had much more heart.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 3:39pm

Wicked is clearly the superior musical. Avenue Q is great but WICKED is on a whole other level.

-WSS losing to Music Man
- Giving the Matildas a TONY
INTO THE WOODS COMPLETELY DESERVED SCORE OVER PHANTOM.
-N2N losing to Billy Elliot
- Sierra B not getting nominated for Ariel
-BATB not winning Best Musical
-Nominating Leap of Faith.
- Newsies losing to ONCE
- Patti Lupone losing the tony in 05

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 3:42pm

INTO THE WOODS did win Best Score.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 4:04pm

Initially I wanted Newsies to win over Once, but they they are not even on the same level.

[mikey2573]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 5:04pm

I think the producers of A CHRISTMAS STORY should have put John Bolton up for Featured Performer. I think Johnny Rabe should have at leas been nominated for an award for his terrific performance in that same show. If any little performer deserves a "special" Tony, it is little Luke Spring, who stopped the (same) show nightly and was featured prominently in just about every review.

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 5:07pm

While we're on the subject, what do we say to Jeff Hiller having gotten a nomination for BBAJ? Jussayin'.

[emida]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 5:19pm

-Bernadette Peters not nominated for Follies
-Kristin Chenoweth not nominated for The Apple Tree
-Aaron Tveit not nominated for Catch Me If You Can

-Danny Burstein not winning for Follies
-The Lion King winning over Ragtime for best musical

Updated On: 5/28/13 at 05:19 PM

[Next2Noone]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:21pm

Stephanie J Block not being nominated until this year.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 6:36pm

Ditching the award for replacements.

[AAO26]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 1:16am

Agree, idina menzel winning over tonya pinkins- tonya pinkins' performance was extraordinary as was the show (caroline or change)- wicked is a great tourist attraction.
the performances were not even on the same league... performances like tonya's don't happen very often on broadway...



Updated On: 5/30/13 at 01:16 AM

[chewy5000]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 2:18am

Surely the dumbest decision they've ever made is endorsing cruise liners and crappy touring productions instead of celebrating the creative aspects...

[Outoftowner2]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 2:29am

Ragtime not getting Best Musical.

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 10:24am

Christmas Story and Bring It On being nominated for Best Musical over Hands on a Hardbody, Chaplin, and/or Motown

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 12:11pm

The worst was having last years Memoriam Section shown during commercials. It's a video montage honoring the theatre professionals who died in the previous year and instead of showing that on the air they had a cruise ship commercial. Shame on the producers!

[dreaming]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 12:16pm

South FL Mark-I so agree with you. I thought it was so disrespectful and for those of us watching from home or elsewhere, it left us wondering what happened to that section.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 4:15pm

Rita Moreno as Featured Actress for THE RITZ. She was the ONLY actress in the show and clearly the leading lady. She said as much in her acceptance speech, apologizing to the other nominees. But that was before producers could petition.

When STATE FAIR was nominated for best Score, the committee said voters could only consider the songs that had not been heard on Broadway previously (there were interpolations from ALLEGRO, ME AND JULIET and PIPE DREAM). David Merrick had the ushers hand out earplugs when the voters came. His last show and his final shtick.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 4:26pm

Stephanie J Block not being nominated until this year.

I mean, I like Stephanie J. Block, but she's only been in 6 Broadway shows and 2 of those were as a replacement.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 5:03pm

*Defientely Avenue Q over Wicked. Avenue Q was GOOD, but not as great as Wicked!
*Alan Cumming not being nominated for MACBETH
*Bertie, getting nominated for LEADING. Now, he might lose -_-
*The Matilda girls, getting honors. Bailey was great, but not Tony-winning
*Norbert beating Andrew and Josh for Best Leading Actor in 2011
*I haven't seen Once yet, so for now: I think Newsies should have gotten Best Set Design and Leading Actor
*Into the Woods, beating Phantom for Best Music
*Mary Poppins should have won Best Cherography. Step In Time was amazing!
*Aaron Tviet, not getting nominated for N2M
*Godspell should have got nominated for Best Revival and Direction. I really enjoyed it!
*Kristin Chenoweth not nominated for The Apple Tree (WTH was up with that?!)

That's all I can think of...for now



Updated On: 5/30/13 at 05:03 PM

[OperaBwayLover]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 6:09pm

*Aida getting nominated for Best Score, but not Best Musical
*The Pajama Game winning Best Revival over Sweeney Todd

And never giving the Best Play/Best Revival of a Play nominees the respect and attention they deserve on the telecast. I'd like to see more than just two seconds of each show, when they bother to throw them an attention bone.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 10:27pm

^^ This, about the Plays. Especially the last few years, when the Play categories have been so strong (Revivals, too) and to have such great material be overshadowed by performances by MEMPHIS, cruise ship casts, touring ensembles and non-nominated musicals just to sell their tickets is very disappointing.

Curious question, because I honestly don't know how it works: are the Play nominees invited to perform a scene or is that courtesy not even offered at this point? If, say, TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL wants to let Cecily do a monologue so they can try and sell more of their summer extension, do they have to petition the Tonys to let them or is there an invitation that all the plays choose to decline?

[jackieoh]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 10:45pm

Letting NPH host every year. BOOM.

The fact that Fiona Shaw did not get nominated for The Testament of Mary...

Marin Mazzie has never won a Tony. (???)

Laura Osnes getting a leading actress nod this year.

And god knows I love Audra McDonald but Jan Maxwell in Follies had my heart.

[IronMan]

Posted: 5/30/13 at 10:56pm

From the 2005 telecast: who the hell thought it would be a good idea to pay tribute to those we'd lost by singing an ode to being famous without needing talent? Not to mention the poor vocal performance- that last note is rather hysterical, though...


Ya got no talents?